Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!ditmela!worsley From: worsley@ditmela.oz (Andrew Worsley) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: atty on Sun 3 (SunOS 3.5 yes SunOS 4.0 no) Message-ID: <5511@ditmela.oz> Date: 5 Jun 89 02:17:11 GMT References: <283@kurz-ai.UUCP> Organization: CSIRO Division of Information Technology, Australia Lines: 32 From article <283@kurz-ai.UUCP>, by simcha@kurz-ai.UUCP (Simcha Lerner): > In article <16363@paris.ics.uci.edu> Doug Schmidt writes: >>In article <280@kurz-ai.UUCP> simcha@kurz-ai.UUCP (Simcha Lerner) writes: >>++ >>++ Has anyone had any luck getting atty running under Sun OS 4.0 >>++ on a Sun 3? >>++ >>++ I get an Abort with "set pty modes: Inappropriate ioctl for device" >>++ whenever I try to start atty up. >> Did you happen to compile with GCC by any chance? If so, did you remember to supply the -traditional option? If you didn't, this is what you're probably going to get. Use -traditional, and the problem should go away... Doug %Alas, I am using the standard Sun provided cc, so this doesn't fix it. %Has anyone out there had success getting atty up on a Sun? We have successfully run it on SunOS 3.5 machine but NOT SunOS 4.0. It appears to make copious use of now obsoleted ioctl's. Andrew Worsley -- Division of Information Technology (Melbourne), Phone +61 3 347 8644 C.S.I.R.O. Fax +61 3 347 8987 55 Barry St. Telex AA 152914 Carlton, Vic, 3053, Australia E-mail: worsley@ditmela.oz.au